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Double Dhamaal focuses on four friends – Adi, Roy, Manav and Boman – who are determined to become billionares. The foursome decide to invest in a prestigious building and hire an investor to bid for it. This investor is kidnapped by the owner of the building, Kabir, who is determined to keep these four guys far away from his company and his life. Kabir finds out their plan to try to become partners and decide to prank against them with his two girlfriends. The two opposite teams scheme against each other in elaborate and insane ways to try to get their way and one team is in for… Double Dhamaal!
The Cast:

Sanjay Dutt as Inspector Kabir Nayak

Arshad Warsi as Adi

Jaaved Jaaferi as Manav

Riteish Deshmukh as Roy

Ashish Chowdhry as Boman

Mallika Sherawat as Kamini

Kangna Ranaut as Kiya

The Crew:

Producers: Ashok Thakeria and Indra Kumar

Review:-

You certainly can’t expect anything less than double the fun from filmmaker Indra Kumar who’s had super hits like Dil, Beta, Ishq or even Dhamaal to his credit. In fact the title itself assures a doublewhammy. However, what it turns out to be is a shoddy show of lunacy. The film is complete slapstick no brainer and manages to make you laugh in very few places. In a bid to create humour the characters keep hollering on your ear drums consistently with their off-timed buffoonery making you wonder if certain things were even meant to be funny. The first half still manages to earn some guffaws but the predictability of the second makes it fall flat. Some scenes though do make you laugh specially the ones that have Jaaved Jaffery in it. He still as the lisp, retard is very likeable and funny. Even the comic scenes of Riteish and Satish Kaushik are good. But what mires them is the tripe and hackneyed plot which works on the clichéd formulas of slapstick comedies.

DD tries creating humour taking digs at other films like Taare Zameen Par, Shola and Guzaarish but falls flat in most cases. The mimicry of many actors like Shahrukh, Aamir, Sanjeev Kumar, Dharmendra etc is still funny.

Actors like Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi and Aashish Chawdhry fail in their comic timing. Riteish, Javed and Satish Kaushik are decent still. Kangna Ranaut is in bad make-up, bad hair and bad styling throughout the film. Moreover, it’s her surgically made-orange lipstick covered huge pout that worsens her appearance all the more. No improvement in dialogues too. Mallika doesn’t get much to do but covers up with her scintillating item song Jalebi Bai. Anand Raj Anand’s music is average with only Jalebi Bai standing out.

RATINGS:-

perfomances- Good

direction- Avearge

music – Average

screenplay – pPoor

technique – Decent

overall entertainment factor – Average to decent comedy

OVER ALL RATINGS – 2.5 / 5 …….

OVERALL IT IS STRICTLY AN AVERAGE COMEDY FILM WITH SILLY PLOT AND GOOD PERFOMANCES

Plot: Mutants Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr take on the evil scientist, Sebastian Shaw, who wants to trigger a nuclear holocaust between Russia and the US.

What’s Good: The screenplay; the well-IMPLEMENTED action sequences; the engaging drama in the second-half; superb technique.

What’s Bad: The performances could have been better; the love story in the filmfeels booring.

Verdict: X-Men: First Class is an entertaining film which will do good business at the Indian box-office.

X-Men: First Class is the extension of the comic book story, where the story-writers (Sheldon Turner and Bryan Singer) have created back stories for the comic’s characters. While there are several references to real-life incidents (the World War II, the Cuban missile crisis, etc.), in order to add authenticity to the story, the plot primarily revolves around the relationship between Charles and Erik. As such, the other parallel stories (Shaw and his evil plans) or the love angle between Raven and another mutant, don’t really work. However, since the screenplay (by Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn) is racy and impactful, the viewer has little to complain about.

The sequences where the newly-discovered mutants are trained to control their special powers by Charles, as well as the climactic action scenes, are very well-executed. Fans of the X-Men franchise will definitely find the film a rewarding experience. Others, who are not familiar with the concept, will also find the film to be an engaging experience.

James McAvoy does well but he has been miscast in the role of Charles. Michael Fassbender is okay as Erik. Kevin Bacon does an average job is Shaw. Jennifer Lawrence (as Raven) acts well. Rose Byrne, January Jones (Emma Frost), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Lucas Till (Havok) and Oliver Platt (officer) fill the bill. Matthew Vaughn’s direction is effective as he manages to maintain the pace of the drama and choreograph the action sequences in an exciting manner to make the film engaging. Henry Jackman’s background score is appropriate. John Mathieson’s cinematography is very good. Visual effects are excellent. Editing, by Eddie Hamilton and Lee Smith, is fine.

overall,X-Men: First Class is an engaging and entertaining fare in spite of a few flaws in the story.